Chapter 279 278. Disappear

Although there are temples of the Statue of Liberty all over the Grimm Empire, since the outbreak of the Plane War, the temples have obeyed the oracle from the Statue of Liberty and will not intervene in the Grimm Empire's plane war. All combat priests and priests must stay in the temple.

The imperial people have begun to have various doubts about the Statue of Liberty. Many people even think that they are abandoned by the Statue of Liberty. Some radical lords think that since the Statue of Liberty cannot provide shelter for the people of the Grimm Empire, then many of the Grimm Empire established The temple should be pushed, and the priests and fighting priests who hid in the temple like turtles should be driven out of the Grimm Empire.

The Grimm Empire is a country of freedom of belief. His Majesty Charles Angibald did not issue a decree prohibiting the emissaries of other gods from spreading teachings in the Grimm Empire, nor did he contradict other gods to build temples in the Grimm Empire, which really rejected the nature of other temples It is the great priests of the Temple of Liberty, and they and their cruel and extreme methods suppress the believers of other gods.

  Although this kind of thing has not been recorded in the annals of history, from the fact that there are no other temples on the territory of the Grimm Empire, it can be seen that the methods of the Temple of Liberty are very clever and effective.

  If there are other reasons, Suldak may find another countermeasure.

  But the enemy he had to face was the even more shady Black Magic Priory, and Suldak felt that there was nothing terrible about it.

  He decided to write a letter to Antonio in Everson Province first, mainly because he wanted to have a deeper understanding of the black magic hermit.

   Selina saw that Suldak did not feel any disgust, disgust, or fear because he was a follower of the dark goddess Shilin, and the tension in her heart eased a little.

Thinking of that timid husband, that is, Signa's father, who heard that he believed in not the Statue of Liberty, but the little-known goddess of darkness, Celine, he was so scared that he didn't dare to leave the house for half a month. From then on, he was worried all the time, and he didn't even get close to Selina, and he was in a trance every day. When the lizard hunting group in Wall Village went out to hunt, they unfortunately died under the claws of sand wolves.

  The initial ominous rumors about Selena probably also came from this man.

Selena stood behind Suldak and watched Suldak quietly. He was writing a letter to the magician Antonio on the wooden table. His concentration made Selena feel a warm current in her heart. Putting his hands on Suldak's broad and strong shoulders, he pressed them tightly from the back, wrapped his hands around his chest, and let his sharp chin rest on his shoulders.

  Her heart was beating wildly, and with her eyes closed, she just wanted to quietly enjoy this long-lost tranquility at this moment.

  He stopped the quill in his hand, stroked her warm and smooth cheek with his hand, and the atmosphere in the room became a little more charming...

"Mom, I'm hungry!" The little girl's sweet and glutinous voice sounded at the door, and I don't know when Signa actually stood at the door, looking into the room curiously, her big watery eyes looked pitiful , looking into the room and asking: "When shall we have lunch?"

Selena hurriedly left Suldak's back, tugged at the folds of the long linen dress with both hands, hurriedly picked out a piece of scorched cassava from the ashes of the fireplace, squatted in front of Signa, and quickly Gently peel back the charred crust of cassava to reveal the sweet, caramelized flesh inside.

  Signa was drooling, a sweet smile appeared on her small face, she took the hot cassava, and tilted her head to look at Suldak with a smile before running out of the yard.

  Suldak walked out of the house and said to Selina: "I'll go to Uncle Brett to discuss the matter of the reservoir. You don't have to be afraid of those robbers, I'm the one with everything."

  Selina nodded gently to Suldak.

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  The news that Wall Village wanted to build a large reservoir upstream of the village quickly spread in the surrounding villages.

  The main reason why this incident spread wildly in the surrounding villages was that Village Chief Bright recruited 20 bricklayers and 100 laborers from other villages.

The head of Bright Village came out to make a promise to everyone. The bricklayer paid 70 copper coins per day and provided two meals for free every day. Free accommodation can be provided, and the start date is about a week after the Harvest Festival.

The period before and after the Harvest Festival is the season for harvesting wheat. Even the villagers of the Pubao Mountain Sulfur Mine have to rush back to participate in the autumn harvest. For farm work, I came to Wall Village to build a reservoir, so the old village chief set the start date for the construction of the reservoir after the Harvest Festival.

According to the practice of previous years, for a period of time after the autumn harvest, most of the villagers in the nearby villages outside the mountain pass will leave the village to find a job outside, and they will return to the village one after another until the first snow falls. Most of the wages returned will be used to buy some winter storage materials. This is how it is spent almost every winter, and the villagers are used to it.

But this autumn, the news of the construction of a water reservoir came from the village of Woer, which made several surrounding villages boil. If you don’t have to leave your hometown, you can find a job and earn a sum of money that can subsidize your family before winter comes. , then who is willing to go out of this mountain and go to the unfamiliar city of Hailansa to find a job.

  Suddenly, many people who were familiar with the old village chief or who were not familiar with him rushed to Wall Village, wanting to take the job.

The old village head didn't expect that just after he spread the news about the construction of the reservoir, the people who applied for the job almost broke the door of the old village head's house just three days later, and now the old village head is a little worried The problem was not that there were not enough people to recruit, but that there were so many applicants that it was difficult for him to make a choice.

During this period of time, Selina became a full-time clerk next to the old village head, not only to record the sulfur mines brought back from outside, but also to register these villagers from other villages who came to apply for the job. During the autumn harvest, the grain field in the village is full of wheat stacks. In the past, the old village head would arrange the time for each household to thresh wheat on the grain field. As for the order of each family, it was recorded in the old village head .

This year is different from the past. The old village head is much busier than in previous years. He is responsible for more things. Some things cannot be avoided and will be forgotten. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, the time for each household to harvest wheat is also determined. Linna recorded on a piece of parchment.

Suldak also took the opportunity to teach Selena to use tables for records and statistics. He filled the parchment with grids and recorded the dates when each household used the grain field in the grids. Then these things seemed to be It is obvious at a glance.

As for the matter of Selina, it is not a problem for the old village head at all. He submitted a report of missing persons to the clerk in charge of household registration in Hailansa City. Selina is counted in the account book of population Disappeared.

  The old village head also issued a notice to the whole village from door to door that night, whoever dares to disclose the news of Selina to outsiders, let him roll up the luggage roll and get out of Wall Village. If someone asks about Selena, they all say, ‘a group of bandits came to the village a few days ago, not only took away a dozen gazelles in the village, but also took Selena away. '

As for the clerk who was in charge of population statistics in the northern suburbs of Hailansa City, before the Harvest Festival, he rushed to Wall Village very dutifully and investigated the missing persons case. The ashes and lingering warmth in the fireplace felt that this was a bit strange, but when the old village chief sent him out of the village, he asked him to remove a fat gazelle.

  So his report clearly stated: After investigation and verification, Selina, a villager in Wall Village, was hijacked by the bandit group. The evidence is solid. Please follow up the matter with the security group...

  (end of this chapter)